{"id":873,"date":"2007-01-09T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=873"},"modified":"2007-01-09T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T14:27:00","slug":"good-book-bad-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2007\/01\/09\/good-book-bad-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Good book, bad movie."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annette Curtis Klause has four weird, romantic YA fantasies to her credit. I especially like her first, the 1992 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Silver-Kiss-AFI-Film-Readers\/dp\/0440213460\/sr=8-1\/qid=1168352226\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/105-2235724-7458824?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">Silver Kiss,<\/a> in which a mopey mortal gets it on with a broody vampire well before BTVS. [Check out the pallid beauty of the cover art. I&#8217;ll take a framed edition, thank you very much.] Later came <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blood-Chocolate-Annette-Curtis-Klause\/dp\/0440226686\/sr=1-1\/qid=1168352467\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/105-2235724-7458824?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">Blood and Chocolate,<\/a> a very sensual tale about a werewolf girl in love with a human boy and therefore in conflict with her pack. Great concept, right?<\/p>\n<p>Not if the producers of Underworld [crashingly boring trilogy about vampires vs. werewolves] get their paws on it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0397044\/\">Blood and Chocolate is now a movie,<\/a> pusillanimously debuting in late January because the makers KNOW it&#8217;s a turd. Oh, it smells like a rotting carcass already&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, we know that crosses and garlic repel vampires, and silver bullets repel werewolves, but what effectively wards off evil film adaptations of good fantasy novels?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annette Curtis Klause has four weird, romantic YA fantasies to her credit. I especially like her first, the 1992 Silver Kiss, in which a mopey mortal gets it on with a broody vampire well before BTVS. [Check out the pallid beauty of the cover art. I&#8217;ll take a framed edition, thank you very much.] Later&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2007\/01\/09\/good-book-bad-movie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good book, bad movie.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}